Hotel evaluation: Druids Glen is a famous playing golf place with a country-club feel

This makes it an excellent alternative for a fuss-free weekend away with minimum driving.

The beautiful seaside town of Greystones, with its long beach and dynamic coffee shop and dining establishment scene, is minutes away by vehicle, as is Great Sugar Loaf, must you expensive a brief however satisfying walking.

9/10

Integrated in 1995, this golf resort has something of an American nation club feel.

The big, intense lobby, with its triple-height ceiling, comfortable seating, and enforcing stone fireplace has ski lodge vibes, while the function staircase, flanked by a curving stone wall with a cone-shaped wood roofing, makes use of Glendalough's round tower for motivation.

Regardless of the several impacts, it's an excellent area that anchors the resort.

Owned by the family-run Neville Group, who are continuously investing, bed rooms are large and classy while the primary dining establishment, Hugo's, is magnificently developed, with great deals of natural light linking restaurants to the leafy resort that surrounds it.

8.5/ 10

Service

A friendly welcome and warm, aromatic hand towels upon check-in make an excellent impression, with our demand to switch around supper reservations dealt with magnificently.

Service shows irregular later on, nevertheless; In the Garden Rooms and Bar we discover it worryingly indifferent, in the beginning, without any welcoming or interaction beyond taking our order.

Breakfast, primarily staffed by young trainees, is great, if a little neglectful. Supper at Hugo's sees a long haul to find menus for our table, so we share 2 till more can be discovered.

Among our beverages is forgotten, too. The majority of personnel are lovely and handy, however there's space for enhancement to make this seem like a luxury offering.

7/10

Visitor spaces

Bedroooms, created in a calming scheme of soft mauve, pistachio, and sand are generous in size, properly designed and really comfortable.

Our living room has a lot of area, great storage and seating, a good desk, and cabinet.

Cool, cotton sheets, exceptional beds, charging areas, and a lot of lighting choices produce a well-conceived area.

The restroom, with French L'Occitane items, is spacious and luxuriously selected nevertheless, the dark marble feels outdated and would take advantage of a refresh.

9/10

In-room advantages

Additional bath bathrobes are provided within minutes of our arrival to accommodate the teenagers.

A choice of tasty, home-made cookies with glasses of milk and Butler's chocolates for the grownups are a welcome touch.

A cool coffee station with kettle and Nespresso device has 4 cups (frequently an oversight in living room), plus Barry's tea, Nescafé pods– consisting of decaf– and Walkers shortbread.

The little refrigerator would be a terrific location to keep fresh milk for our tea, instead of the UHT up top.

8.5/ 10

On the menu

The Garden Rooms' casual menu consists of offerings like a fantastic Druids Irish beef hamburger, with Cashel Blue and grilled onions, and delicious Wicklow Wolf beer-battered haddock, with triple-cooked chips.

Supper in Hugo's is exceptional, with enthusiastic meals like cider-cured sea trout, slow-roasted quail, and stone bass with Jerusalem artichokes.

Breakfast is a good affair too, with a great choice of cold and hot meals and fascinating drink menu. In general, we ‘d like to see much more provenance throughout the menus.

8/10

Druids Glen has an excellent swimming pool with a Jacuzzi, sauna, steam bath, ice bath and cold and hot showers.

The glass outside makes it feel calm and intense, with a fully equipped fitness center that neglects the swimming pool and a health club with 7 treatment spaces.

A detailed map recommends a lovely walking path, and, with 2 parkland golf courses, the estate is blessed with fully grown trees.

Play a round of golf or go to the reconditioned club home, the outstanding 18th century Woodstock House, where you can lease clubs.

9/10

Escape notes

Space to enhance? Service requires to be straightened out to match the warm and expert welcome gotten at check-in. The back of the hotel, which is passed to access the strolling tracks, is shabby and in bad requirement of a lick of paint.

Gain access to for visitors with impairments? Hotel is well created for wheelcahir users with visitor space alternatives, large passages and simple access to all locations.

Family-friendly? Really! Together with household swimming times, a fairy path, outside play ground and indoor playroom there's a kids club, golf enjoyable and sports club throughout school vacations. An infant kitchen is equipped with steriliser, microwave and dishwashing machine.

Pet dogs invite? Just service pets permitted.

EV battery chargers? Yes.

• Newtownmountkennedy, Co Wicklow

• druidsglenresort.com

• The expense:
• The decision: 8/10 — This first-class resort has excellent household centers and is a brief drive from Dublin.